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Joe Perez 05-19-2011 10:02 PM

Bad Guys In New Chinese Video Game Are U.S. Servicemembers
 
May 18, 2011 | 4:55 PM | By Beth Ford Roth

A new Chinese video game called Glorious Mission pits the gamer against an enemy – and that enemy is the United States Military, according to Wired.com. Glorious Mission is ironically based on a video game created by the U.S. Army as a recruiting tool, aptly called America’s Army, which puts gamers through virtual basic training, then onto a virtual battlefield.

However, as Wired.com points out:
There’s one key difference between the American and Chinese “shooters.” Where the bad guys in America’s Army are generic Middle Eastern or Central Asian insurgents and terrorists, the enemy in Glorious Mission is apparently the U.S. military. A TV report offers glimpses of an American-made Apache gunship crashing in flames.
Wired.com posted this video of Glorious Mission:


jeff_man 05-19-2011 10:11 PM

So in the Chinese version every level ends in you dieing at the hands of a superior army?

gospeed81 05-19-2011 11:10 PM

Haven't we been FPShooting Germans, Russians, Chinese, Vietnamese and Persians for years now?

Joe Perez 05-19-2011 11:49 PM


Originally Posted by gospeed81 (Post 729272)
Haven't we been FPShooting Germans, Russians, Chinese, Vietnamese and Persians for years now?

Well, yeah, but that's OK because we're Americans (and, to a lesser extent, Brits and Canadians.) They're not.

Faeflora 05-20-2011 12:15 AM


Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 729286)
Well, yeah, but that's OK because we're Americans (and, to a lesser extent, Brits and Canadians.) They're not.

but but but my grandfather was from germany and my other grandfather is from southeast asia!!! and they're mericun too!

messiahx 05-20-2011 01:07 AM

Must be like Contra. Impossible to win.

jeff_man 05-20-2011 01:40 AM


Originally Posted by messiahx (Post 729311)
Must be like Contra. Impossible to win.

No the Chinese military has the contra code. instead of 3 highly trained highly geared solders they have 30 poorly trained cheap geared solders.

kotomile 05-20-2011 01:47 AM

Good timing, seeing as "we" turned the bad guys in Homefront into North Koreans instead of Chinese just recently. And IIRC, the Chinese.. president? PM? just said that the Chinese military is "no match" for the Americans.

Weird country.

Joe Perez 05-20-2011 08:16 AM


Originally Posted by kotomile (Post 729329)
Good timing, seeing as "we" turned the bad guys in Homefront into North Koreans instead of Chinese just recently. And IIRC, the Chinese.. president? PM? just said that the Chinese military is "no match" for the Americans.

15 years ago, they were no match for the US auto industry, either.





Originally Posted by Faeflora (Post 729290)
but but but my grandfather was from germany and my other grandfather is from southeast asia!!! and they're mericun too!

Damn you and your supportable logic.

FRT_Fun 05-20-2011 08:25 AM

They are smart. Make the world think they don't have what they do by being humble. We could take a few lessons in that department.

Braineack 05-20-2011 08:35 AM


Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 729387)
15 years ago, they were no match for the US auto industry, either.


Timely:


Taxpayer-Supported GM Sponsors Chinese Communist Film


Cadillac is a beloved American brand. So why is it starring in a propaganda film about the birth of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)? The U.S. government-backed General Motors (GM) has offered the car up for use in a new film celebrating the CCP’s 90th birthday, “The Birth of a Party.”
GM’s sponsorship of this celebration is appalling, considering the bloody history of the Chinese Communist Party and the role it has played in China’s dismal human rights record. The film covers events leading up to the CCP’s creation in the early 1900s. Cadillac announced itself as a “chief business partner” of the communist propaganda film the same year China refused to release democracy and human rights advocate Liu Xiaobo from prison to receive the Nobel Prize. Xiaobo was represented at the ceremony by an empty chair.

The deal was made in hopes of helping GM recover from bankruptcy by expanding Cadillac’s popularity in China, its largest worldwide market. If GM were a completely private company, this would be a matter for its board and shareholders to take up with management. But as The Washington Times points out, the U.S. government owns 33 percent of GM. This means the American taxpayer is forced to support this gross publicity stunt. It also means the good name of the United States of America is on the line, not just that of a private company with a bottom line to meet.

There are certainly nobler causes to sponsor. For example, Heritage’s Dr. Lee Edwards chairs the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. The Memorial commemorates the more than 100 million victims of communism and is represented by a replica of a statue erected by Chinese students in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China in the spring of 1989. An estimated 65 million died as a result of communist brutality just under Mao Zedong. Surely this slaughter will not be part of the film GM is sponsoring.




I was going to quote a story where some Chinese Ambasator said their army is no match for the US, but I couldn't find the story agian.

kotomile 05-20-2011 09:18 AM


Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 729387)
15 years ago, they were no match for the US auto industry, either.

Exactly. They were playing their capabilities down in an attempt to not scare us about their military growth.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Chines...e1-699331.aspx

Braineack 05-20-2011 09:20 AM


I was going to quote a story where some Chinese Ambasator said their army is no match for the US, but I couldn't find the story agian.
that's the article!

Splitime 05-20-2011 09:43 AM

I for one welcome our Chinese overlords.

lordrigamus 05-20-2011 10:14 AM

The "Nuke the Moon" plan is looking better and better every day.

fooger03 05-20-2011 10:27 AM

The chinese are probably the best capitalists in the world right now.

chicksdigmiatas 05-20-2011 01:17 PM

I also own a viper, mclaren, and formula 1 car on a videogame.


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